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Mustafa Akan

Carnegie Mellon University, David A. Tepper School of Business

Pittsburgh, PA

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

5

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639

TOTAL CITATIONS

2

Scholarly Papers (5)

Naor Revisited: Two-Sided Queues with Strategic Agents

Number of pages: 113 Posted: 28 Jan 2026
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University, David A. Tepper School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
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Two-sided queues, strategic behavior, matching, social welfare, equilibrium models, rational queueing, queueuing economics

Naor Revisited: Two-Sided Queues with Strategic Agents

Number of pages: 108 Posted: 23 Jan 2026
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University, David A. Tepper School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
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Two-Sided Queues, Strategic Behavior, Matching, Social Welfare

Naor Revisited: Two-Sided Queues with Strategic Agents

Number of pages: 111 Posted: 02 Feb 2026
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University, David A. Tepper School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
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Two-sided queues, strategic behavior, matching, social welfare, equilibrium model

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Delay Information Sharing in Two-Sided On-Demand Platforms

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 26 Jun 2025 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2026
University College London - UCL School of Management, State University of New York, SUNY at Stony Brook University, College of Business, Walmart Global Tech and Carnegie Mellon University, David A. Tepper School of Business
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On-demand Platforms, Two-Sided Queues, Strategic Queueing, Delay Information Sharing

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Dynamic Exception Points for Fair Liver Allocation

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Jun 2023
Mustafa Akan, Musa Celdir and Sridhar Tayur
Carnegie Mellon University, David A. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business
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Fairness, Equity, Liver Allocation Policy, Organ Transplantation, MELD Exception Score

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Efficient Allocation of Load-Balancing and Differentiation Tasks in Tandem Queue Services

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 May 2024
Mohammad Delasay and Mustafa Akan
State University of New York, SUNY at Stony Brook University, College of Business and Carnegie Mellon University, David A. Tepper School of Business
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Tandem queues, Queueing optimization, Load-balancing, Customer differentiation, Expert services, Service systems, AI in healthcare

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Congestion-Based Lead-Time Quotation for Heterogenous Customers with Convex-Concave Delay Costs: Optimality of a Cost-Balancing Policy Based on Convex Hull Functions

Operations Research, 60(6), 1505-1519. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1120.1117 , The University of Auckland Business School Research Paper Series
Posted: 27 Oct 2021
Mustafa Akan, Baris Ata and Tava Lennon Olsen
Carnegie Mellon University, David A. Tepper School of Business, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School

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